"...another reason I'm intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place because they were financially independent, or sharp-tongued, or kept to themselves. In other words, they were killed off for the same sort of life I live right now but with longer skirts and fewer cable channels."
Sarah Vowell, The partly cloudy patriot.

2.01.2007

Those darned foreigners

My supervisor (for whom english is not his first langauge): Dr. PI likes to use make the text more stylish. He liked to use words that are Greek or French to make it nice.

[looks for an example in the grant, finds one]

Supervisor: See here, here is a word like that. [points to the word "Serendipitously."]